I'm setting up a new administration server and I would like to be able to easily bring up a set of windows depending on what I'm working on. For example a session named "WebProd" that would open all 4 ...

is there a way to get the byobu window number (or window name) in shell?
I want the same code to behave differently depending on the window in which it is running: I am thinking about something like ...

With the update to 14.10 my byobu setup broke. Apparently now I cannot exec during my simple shell configuration script, and I have instead to invoke the exec in the "login shell configuration" (I'm ...

I'm currently trying to use byobu from PuTTY via ssh. I have currently putty-256color as Terminal-type string because otherwise not even Byobu bindings worked and I couldn't create new windows or move ...

What is the equivalent tmux command :setw synchronize-panes in byobu? Byobu has Shift-F9 to run a command in all splits, but this does not help if I want to, say, edit the same file using vim in two ...

When I'm sharing the same byobu session with multiple users, sometimes when I change the tab, the other user is automatically changed to my new tab, and sometimes he has to do it manually. How can I ...

Why wget prints many new lines, when connecting to an Ubuntu machine via a remote terminal session like PuTTY?
The issue is not just in wget but in byobu as well. Both programs behave queer.
I assume ...

I installed a new Ubuntu server on 14.04 and need to access it using Windows. I am currently using PuTTYTray, and I installed the Ubuntu fonts and set Ubuntu Mono as my default font in order to get ...

After the last byobu's update, I realized that the weird character in bottom left of terminal was not repaired. This character is right or not? See link below.
Ubuntu 14.04; Language: English (US); ...

Is there a way to start automatically a window with multiple splits running their own application using byobu? am using tmux as the backend.
Also, how do i select the content of a split for pasting ...

On ubuntu 14.04 LTs, when running byobu, I keep seeing strange numbers appear, such as 127 in the screenshot below:
What does this 127 represent, and if it is nothing important, how do I get rid of ...

I can type this command byobu on the terminal and Byobu will start but when I click on the Gui icon it starts and closes fast.
What I did before that is enable autolaunch and then disable it I thought ...

I recently logged in to my media center via ssh because it was having issues, and noticed at stat at the bottom of my terminal in red with exclamation marks next to it, but cannot seem to guess what ...

I've been using tmux for a number of years, earlier today I thought I'd try byobu - to see what it's like. But now I can't get back to tmux. When I run tmux I end up back in boyobu. Does anyone know ...

What I really like about tilda is teh keybinding allowing me to pop it on top of whatever i'm working on and then after I finish with my terminal commands make it run in the background. Is it possible ...

During an apt-get upgrade on a server, output stalled and in investigation I found a zombie dpkg process, but the apt-get process still alive. What is the best way to handle this? The dpkg log shows ...

I know Byobu is a terminal multiplexer and mouse is not a priority, but I still would like to know if there is a way to focus on a split using mouse click instead of keyboard shortcuts.
In negative ...

We're seeing varations in our logs when a user su's from a byobu session vs. a regular shell session. When using a regular session the lines in /var/log/auth.log look like this:
root@delta:/var/log# ...

Ctrl+Shift+T shortcut runs the gnome-terminal by default. I have installed byobu, and I want this shortcut to open the latest used byobu session. When pressed multiple times, I should still have just ...

For quite some time I've been using screen to detach and let them run in the background. Then I discovered byobu to have mutliple tabbed shells running. Now I have a problem that I'm no longer able to ...